Other than the fact that you _did_ vote, I think?

My experience reflects yours.

Once you have a SINGLE full-time remote employee your team should operate as a fully-remote team. That means online meetings, online communications, documentation, etc.

I started learning Python web-development with Django, but it really didn't click until I learned with Flask and other "minimalist" frameworks first. It could have been the available material at the time, but understanding step by step what I got for "free" with Django was really helpful for me.

I think it also helped me understand web frameworks (or at least the specific paradigm) in general. At times with learning Django I felt like I was _learning Django_. I have this same issue with ORMs.

That said I still really like Django and use it now that I have a somewhat better understanding of what it's actually doing.

But there was still exchange value.

Furthermore, the scale and ease of purchase of lootboxes vs. baseball cards are incomparable.

People do sell loot box items in a lot of games... that often just makes the gambling problem worse, because people buy the loot boxes thinking they will make real world money.

Good timing for this - the Team Fortress 2 hat market just collapsed over a change in drop rates.

It's probably worth differentiating tradeable loot boxes, which end up used like stock speculation, from untradeable ones, which seem to be used more like slot machines.

Indeed, letting players try to scam each other seems slightly less evil than scamming the players directly.

Being unable to resell, or even often gift, the output from lootboxes makes a significant difference as well.

Basic economics have moved far past supply and demand curves, imo.

Also demand is not the same as consumption. You can manufacture demand.

I'd suggest Elixir if you're starting from scratch and _don't_ have to deal with too many third-parties. It honestly feels like the holy grail ecosystem if you're comfortable dealing with the gritty stuff once in a while and can live without types.

Writing API wrappers is so easy in Elixir though, that you actually can usually get away with building your own 3rd party adapters though.

They do not _demand_ others help them. They ask.

There is a difference.

> And users DO see the difference from poorly written web apps.

While I agree and personally do get frustrated with poor performance web apps... there are few companies that let you focus on performance over features. Throughout my (admittedly short) career all I've heard is "we can optimize later", "product is more important", etc.

Which I'm prepared to admit may be true. It's just boring as fuck.

Not really, if you've had a short career your 'optimizations' are anything but.

Seriously, what you think is causing slowdowns will not be at all. Everything you'll be pushing for will save nanoseconds or 10s of milliseconds, pointless, unnecessary complications.

Generally in a crud app performance problems are caused by a single sql statement or a silly, unnecessary, loop within a loop.

Source: 15 years crud app dev and a lot of fixes for clients of their slow apps.

The financial uncertainty would be appalling.

Can we blame agents for acting rationally under capitalism?

Yes. It's rational to e.g. steal if you know you can get away with it, but it doesn't make it right.

Awfully confusing since stealing in this case (lobbying) is currently legal.

Getting upset at TurboTax for lobbying is like getting upset when a baseball player steals a base.. it’s part of the game. If it isn’t working then change the rules of the game! Trying to shame every baseball player into not stealing bases isn’t gonna work, they want to win.

I find their profit strategies to be abhorrent with their nag screens, bait & switches, dark patterns, purposely confusing "free" wording, no-indexing of the real freefile page, and so forth. I think that is clearly unethical business behavior.

But you're saying one can only get upset at a company if they do something illegal, not if one considers what that company is doing unethical, regardless of legality?

Legal does not equal ethical.

Why not just enshrine a reflection of our morality into law itself? Large groups of people have shown a pretty bad track record of caring about "ethical behavior".

Law is not intended to be a reflection of morality. There's a lot of behavior most people would consider immoral (lying, adultery, cutting in line) that we generally don't want laws against. Coordinated social pressure can be a powerful coercive force as well!

> Law is not intended to be a reflection of morality

By whom? By any reasonable definition the two will never be the same (otherwise why have two words for it), but it does seem like laws ensure justice, and justice is a reflection of how people feel, and that all comes together to form morality.

Coordinated social pressure has its limitations. 50 years ago homosexuality is deeply frowned upon in the US, now it's accepted in a fair number of places, shouldn't the law change to reflect the new morality of the times?

And now likewise if we think that taxes are too low for the mega wealthy, or companies are bribing the living hell out of congress... shouldn't we make laws against that? I don't see stern looks changing these problems.